Study: Obese people have ‘severe brain degeneration’ (LiveScience.com) LiveScience.com – A new study finds obese people have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal-weight individuals. Their brains look 16 years older than the brains of lean individuals, researchers said today.
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SC retiree: $260M Powerball prize won’t change me (AP) AP – A retired South Carolina state employee who spent two bucks on the lottery was all smiles Tuesday as he claimed a $260 million Powerball jackpot. ‘For once in my life, I really experienced the old saying, pinch me to see if I’m still...
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Minority Share of SAT Takers Hits 40 Percent Four out of 10 students who take the SAT are racial or ethnic minorities, the College Board reported Tuesday morning, a milestone for the nation’s most widely used college admissions test. But some performance gaps are widening in comparisons of scores by race and family income.
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Hyundai-Kia overtakes Ford to become world’s 4th largest automaker Filed under: Hyundai, Kia, By the Numbers, South Korea 2009 Hyundai Genesis Coupe – Click above for high-res image gallery If you were shocked by the news from around this time last year that the Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group had jumped up to 5th in the...
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Transformers ‘Barricade’ Saleen Mustang sold at auction for $36,000 Filed under: Auctions, Ford, Police/Emergency, Celebrities, Specialty One of three ‘Barricade’ Saleen Mustangs produced for Transformers – Click above for gallery For better or worse, not all of us can be Sam Witwicky, swapping spit with Megan Fox and attempting to foil galactic evil robots...
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What To Do If Your GPS Fails Have you ever considered a backup plan for your GPS if it happens to fail in a city you’re not familiar with? If you said ‘another GPS’, you get a gold star. But what if you’re not rich? Those who don’t have money for two GPSes...
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Microfluidic chip does 1,000 parallel chemical reactions, looks glorious We’d never considered a career in biochemistry until we saw this wild beast of a chemical microprocessor. Microfluidic chips, used to test chemical reactions and properties, have been known to be smaller, but they’ve never before been quite this powerful. The result of a joint...
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CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. 14-person kidney transplant chain a success Surgeons at two Washington hospitals have performed seven kidney transplants involving 14 recipients and donors who did not match, using a process that virtually eliminates the chances of organ rejection.
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Astronauts return from space to sushi overload (AP) AP – Koichi Wakata was still getting used to gravity, though it wasn’t going to stop him from diving into a deluge of sushi.
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